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Kill and disable gnome trackers in rhel
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disable_gnome_tracker
### VERY careful here... point is to surgically remove tracker processes
kill $(ps aux | grep 'tracker' | awk '{print $2}')
echo "Hidden=true" >> /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-extract.desktop
echo "Hidden=true" >> /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-apps.desktop
echo "Hidden=true" >> /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-fs.desktop
echo "Hidden=true" >> /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-user-guides.desktop
echo "Hidden=true" >> /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-store.desktop
dbus-launch --exit-with-session gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files crawling-interval -2
dbus-launch --exit-with-session gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files enable-monitors false
yes | LANG=C tracker reset --hard
sed -i 's/X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=.*/X-Gnome-Autostart-enabled=false/' /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-store.desktop
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